Beauty, Mercy, Justice

It was Better Before, Before They Voted for What’s-His-Name

For election day, the great punk band X’s “The New World”. I love this tune, not least because it is the only song I know of that mentions Flint, where I was born. Though they get it wrong, singing “Flint Ford Auto Mobile Alabama”, when Fords are built in Detroit (“Don’t forget the Motor City”). Flint is the home of GM. But enjoy:

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Near as I can tell, the American experiment went off the rails in 1796, and put faith in progress instead of God. Every President since then has been worse than the previous one: More tyranical, more immoral.

Progres itself is the enemy of humanity- the snake in the apple tree. The more progressive we get, the worse the world gets.

“Progres (sic) itself is the enemy of humanity- the snake in the apple tree. The more progressive we get, the worse the world gets.”
I will for the moment forget your ridiculous assertion that every president has been worse than the previous one (Lincoln worse than James Freakin’ Buchanan?!) and address this bit of nonsense.
So, you think blacks should be bought and sold as chattel? And that they were worse off after the Civil Rights act than under Jim Crow? You wax nostalgic for the days when beating one’s wife and children provoked no social stigma? Or when a fine day of leisure involved packing a picnic lunch, bundling the kiddies, and heading off to watch a public execution in the town square? Or maybe you long for the days when poor people were executed for stealing food? And you prefer not so long ago, when a man who developed heart problems in middle age, as I did, was pretty much doomed. Thanks, but I prefer to live in the age of bypass surgery and stents, when my children can assume Daddy will be around for a while.
I grant that the modern world has left much evil in its wake. But it is not all bad. In many ways life is more humane than at any time in our history, in spite of all the horrors. May I recommend a book? It is Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: How Violence is Declining. Seriously, this book cured me of sentimental nostalgia. But a warning: you will want to throw it across the room reading the first chapters; Dr Pinker is a Jewish atheist, and his hostility to revealed religion, especially Christianity, is stunning. But stick with it; his counterintuitive thesis challenged my presuppositions, and he not only makes a good argument, he documents his case with a lot of evidence.

At least they cared about Christ- and were fighting for something after 600 years of the Muslims and Jews attacking Europe. AND they were under orders limiting their warfare to Tuesday to Thursday, leaving open Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday for prayer and reflection.

This? This is atheism. This is total depravity with NO redeeming value or morality left at all.

The Muslim or the Jew could escape their fate by converting.

I can’t escape my fate at the hands of an administration that has already branded truth lies and lies truth, and people like me unfit to survive.

And it wouldn’t have been any different at all if Romney had been elected. 98% voted for intrinsic evil against the Church. 98%.

“At least they cared about Christ”? You mean the Christ who commanded them to love their enemies?
And you are defending forced conversion?
I do not mean to demonize the Middle Ages, and I once felt the nostalgia you are indulging in, but get real.